INTERVIEWS

“I’m terrified that once my maternal grandfather passes away, no one will know how to recite the Passover Haggadah,” Vuolo says. “It’s very important for me to marry someone who can do that, and that my children know how too.” Miss November feels that the older she gets the more she wants religion in her life.

Indeed it takes great men to make history, but perhaps even greater men to change it. Ben Weider is one such man. In defiance to the over 200,000 books written about Napoleon, Weider's book, The Murder of Napoleon, challenges them all concluding that the French leader didn't die of cancer while in exile, but rather was murdered by the English. Why the suspicion? After supposedly suffering form cancer for 5 years, Weider questioned how it was the Napoleon died fat.

There are many ways to measure a man and evaluate his worth. Forbes magazine has ranked Eitan Wertheimer as the richest man in Israel with a net worth of $4.4 billion. But does money make a man? Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Democratic Mayor and high profile immigration attorney Michael J. Wildes serves in deference to the woman with the biggest mouth in America. It’s not Rosie O’Donnell, Hillary Clinton, or even a Jewish mother-in-law. It’s a woman whose mouth is three-feet wide and yet has never uttered a single word. For over a century she has stood as a silent witness to the historic inflow of America’s greatest treasures—its people and their burgeoning dreams. She is Lady Liberty and her symbolic message is loud: “We will not forget that liberty here made her home.”

As he walks down the streets of the world with his long cape flapping and flowing behind him, he provokes many a reaction. With peace-symbol appliqués emblazoned on his train, people cannot help but wonder who he is and why he is attired so. Some smile and bid him well, others hurl insults and caustic remarks. But it is those offensive remarks, and other more threatening ones, that reinforce the hard work Ivan Wilzig, aka Sir Ivan, has ahead of him in his fight against intolerance and ignorant hatred. He is called Peaceman. He is a singer/songwriter bearing a message of brotherly love, so why shoot the messenger?

T here are some things, like class and charm, that even billionaires can’t buy. But, good thing for Mortimer Zuckerman, who ranks as number 211 on Forbes’ list of richest Americans, he has those qualities in natural abundance—so much so that he can de-claw the most jeering of journalists. And this “man of plenty” has not lacked his share of pouncing reporters, a pack of wage earners who can’t help but gibe and jab at a man who is worth approximately 1 billion, one hundred million. Zuckerman himself is reportedly reserved and tight lipped when it comes to talking about his money, finding it a crass subject, but he doesn’t have to talk about it, there are enough “yakkers” out there estimating what he’s worth.